Re: [PATCH] Hold an 'unsigned long' chunk of the sha1 in obj_hash

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

So we take a slightly different approach, and trade some memory for
better cache locality.

Interesting.  It feels somewhat bait-and-switch to reveal that the
above "some" turns out to be "double" later, but the resulting code
does not look too bad, and the numbers do not look insignificant.